POEM: HARPOON

Your speech enters
Like a lock pick
You speak to me and hear

The secrets I’ve tucked
Like a migrated duck
Reclusive relics warm the ear

Your powder white harpoon
Slips through my torso
A gaze maze exits the rear

Your sulky smile
Waits me out
And I protect what is dear

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